Matthew Bourne: Isotach

Matthew Bourne

Matthew Bourne's fourth solo album was recorded at home, looking out across storm-battered Yorkshire moors, during “a period when my...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2017

Roseanna Vitro: Listen Here

Arnett Cobb | Ben Riley | Buster Williams | Kenny Barron | Roseanna Vitro

Recorded in 1982 and originally released in October 1984, this reissue of Roseanna Vitro's fine debut album finds a singer...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2021

The Oakland Elementary School Arkestra: The Saga Of Padani

Chabot School Musicians | Montclair School Musicians | Thornhill School Musicians

Opening with the sound of a school bell, this collection of avant-jazz compositions performed by students from three different school...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: October/2018

Rob Luft: Life is the Dancer

Byron Wallen | Corrie Dick | Joe Webb | Joe Wright | Luna Cohen | Rob Luft | Tom McCredie

We need be gentle with Luft. He's spectacularly talented, but there can be costs to being the hardest working man...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2020

Nicola Conte: Love & Revolution

Gregory Porter | Jose James | Magnus Lindgren | Nailah Porter | Paolo Benedettini | Pietro Lusssu | Teppo Makynen | Till Bronner

Featuring a stellar line-up of international vocalists and instrumentalists, deluxe arrangements courtesy of Swedish multi-instrumentalist Magnus Lindgren, and a beautifully...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2011

Benedikt Jahnel Trio: Equilibrium

Benedikt Jahnel's day job may be as a researcher in mathematics at Ruhr university in Bochum, Germany, but he has...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2013

Michel Camilo: What's Up?

Michel Camilo

It’s not a great title, is it? ‘Wassup!?’ – in the manner of those Budweiser ads – would have been...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2013

Sonny Clark: Four Classic Albums

As well as several posthumous archive issues, Clark was responsible for six albums released during his short lifetime, five of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020

Sarah Vaughan: The Complete 1947-1950

Barney Kessel | George Duvivier | Joe Comfort | Mundell Lowe | Sarah Vaughan

The second 2CD volume in Le Chant du Monde’s Sarah Vaughan series, The Complete 1947-1950, features brilliant interpretations of ‘The...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2013

Paul Dunmall, Tony Bianco: Thank You To John Coltrane

Paul Dunmall | Tony Bianco

This duo of Paul Dunmall and American drummer Tony Bianco recalls immediately Trane's work with Elvin Jones and later Rashied...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: October/2012